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I'd think that in virtually all cases movies available in both formats would be essentially identical. Given the small sales volume for HD media in general I can't imagine studios incurring the expense of performing multiple encodes when they can just encode for the smaller capacity media and roll that encode onto both formats for pressing.

I just got back from Circuit City with a new 1400, man this thing is hard to find! I guess I have officially chosen sides.

I've seen a few titles on both HD DVD and Blu-ray formats, and for the vast majority of them the studios use the same exact transfer and codec. This translates to identical picture quality.

You are absolutely correct haylo75. It didn't used to be that way, and Blu-Ray image quality early on (for the first many months) was fairly poor in comparison. Today, they are both pretty much identical in codec and specs.